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GitLab: Incident updated: Intermittent 500 on GitLab.com

Incident updateNormal progress (rule, 100%)Changed status.gitlab.com (opens in new tab)
Summary

Summary pending. The diff below shows exactly what changed.

Incident page: the full timeline of updates

Part of an outage event

Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026 · 19 vendors, 19 incidents

GitLab’s incident started in the same window without naming Google Cloud (timing only, not evidence of a link). (timing only, posted +1 h vs Google Cloud’s own post)

See the cascade chart and every vendor →

Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider. A link means one vendor’s incident named another, not a confirmed cause.

What changed

Struck in red is what GitLab removed; blue is what they added. Muted text is unchanged context.

ChangedStatus#1
Before: monitoring
After: resolved
AddedResolved time#2
Before: not present
After: 2026-10-20 09:55 UTC
AddedUpdateresolved#3
Before: not present
After: We have not seen any more HTTP 500 errors for GitLab Secrets Manager since the mitigation was applied. This incident is now resolved. Details: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/work_items/23288

Compared with the previous archived version of this incident (10 to 30-minute polling). View the live incident (opens in new tab).

Archive proof

Rewindex commits each version of an incident it captures to a daily checkpoint, chains it to the day before, and has the checkpoint timestamped by FreeTSA and DigiCert. That proves these records existed by then and have not been changed since, by anyone, Rewindex included.

How the archive is checked, and what it cannot prove.

History of this incident

YesterdayTuesday, October 20Tue, Oct 20

1 rewrite, 3 incident changes

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